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IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


This is the public portal for all IBM Z Hardware and Operating System related offerings. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center

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improved monitoring: more messages and quicker

current monitoring does not show all errors, and sometimes shows errors that have been corrected. Monitoring should also be quicker - status of compute nodes should have enough priority to show problems in near-real-time.
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Support for storage upgrade /storage HA

1) to support Citi’s plan to upgrade storage systems; 2) to support Citi’s plan to implment storage HA solution (which is in discussion)
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Needs more information

Swagger ui front end portal

The ability to fully "brand" the Web UI
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Under review

FS9500 HyperSwap testing/integration

"requirement to disable auto lun scan. The client also wants to use FS9500 HyperSwap, and we are seeing the combination of technology (ICIC + FS9500 HyperSwap) does not appear to have been tested."
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Under review

Domain per client

Domain per client with multiple projects, needs complete isolation from each other, can specify rules & parms. Domain is an openstack concept.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Future consideration

z/VM support for EMC Cinder Driver for SCSI LUNs

A customer wants to have IBM Cloud Orchestrator create/manage SCSI LUNs for z/VM Linux using EMC DASD. Currently it's not supported(certified) to use EMC DASD for ICO - only IBM DASD/SVC for FCP/SCSI.
over 8 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 5 Future consideration

Compute node HA

HA for compute node services (pcs nova, cinder, neutron etc)
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Future consideration

RHEL9 support: mgmt node

RHEL9 support including mgmt node and compute node
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration